Alternate title: "Eighteen hundred miles on horseback." This diary (Sept. 1-Oct. 31, 1892) contains descriptions of a journey made by U.S. Army Lieutenants Bard Pendleton Schenck and Palmer G. Wood from Fort Yates, North Dakota to Yellowstone Park, as well as their return journey through North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, with frequent mention of local inhabitants and descriptions of the landscape. Includes one map